How did Google Know my System ws infected?

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How did Google Know my System ws infected? C.Wilder 02-02-2007
Posted by C. Wilder on February 7, 2007, 12:37 pm
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Phillip Windell wrote:
>> PA Bear wrote:
>>> PS I would NEVER click on a link you posted unless it was a
>>> screenshot or a URL where you encountered a problem.
>>
>> So in other words you can dish it out but you refuse to take any
>> feed back.
>
> No it just means we are smart enough not to click on links with
> unknown destinations given by people we do not know or have any idea
> what hidden motives they may have. Also even if their motives were
> pure,...if they got infected with something by going to a link,...why
> should we go to the same link to "see what it was"?

Going off the deep end shows you are balanced. LOL

You spend to much time locked in your house. You should take your meds and
get out more often.

LOL




Posted by Robert Moir on February 4, 2007, 6:08 am
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C. Wilder wrote:
[snip] (btw if we're going to throw stones about how to quote posts, what
about trimming?)

> My System had become infected and cleaned. I had been having problems
> searching Google with a window mentioning something about it thought
> I was a spam bot or something like that. This only happened on
> occasion so I ignored it as I knew it was wrong. I found out soon
> after that I had a Trojan and that was detected simply by typing in a
> question. I then thought this must be a well known fact on a security
> group so I didn't think it would necessary to go into more detail.
[snip some more]

I can think of at least two things Google does that answer your description
of your question/problem, and I would have no chance of working out which of
the two you meant based on your posts here, even if I were to assume it
couldn't possibly be doing something else as well that I had not yet heard
about.

The quality of the answers one receives is often closely related to the
quality of the questions one asks.



Posted by S. Pidgorny on February 3, 2007, 3:36 am
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Google doesn't know a thing - it's just a Web search engine.

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

>I had been wondering how Google knew my System was infected from just
>trying to log on?
>



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